3:18 AM,
Oct. 23, 2013

Theodore Fujita was born Fujita Tetsuya.

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The Weather Bureau was formed in 1870 to take meteorological observations and to give notice of the approach of severe storms to the coastal areas of the United States and the Great Lakes. The service started as a part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, moved to the Department of Agriculture in 1890, and then to the Department of Commerce in 1940; in 1970, it was renamed the National Weather Service and became part of the renamed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The service is dedicated to improving the safety of Americans and their property. However, it was not until 1950 that ...